Buster Keaton began performing in vaudeville as a toddler with father Joe Keaton and mother Myra Keaton in 1896. Began motion picture work with Roscoe Arbuckle for Comique in The Butcher Boy (1917). Keaton suspended his film career to serve in World War I, returning afterwards to his work with Arbuckle. His own series of short film comedies were began in 1920 when Arbuckle went into feature film production.